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SURPLICED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does surpliced mean?
• SURPLICED (adjective)
The adjective SURPLICED has 1 sense:
1. wearing a surplice
Familiarity information: SURPLICED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wearing a surplice
Similar:
clad; clothed (wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination)
Context examples
There was not a soul there save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who seemed to be expostulating with them.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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